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Melbourne Spoken Word is proud to host “Good Ghost” Bill Moran again in Melbourne this June. Following two successful shows in the past two years, Bill has become a great friend and supporter of the local Melbourne scene.

He will be supported by Melbourne poets Arielle Cottingham, Ed Carlyon, Will Beale, Jess Alice and Esme Foong, plus the winner of Slamalamadingdong in May, Alex Fusca.

Doors open 7pm for a 7.30pm start.

Featuring

Will Beale

William Beale is a spoken word poet, writer and actor currently based in Melbourne. His debut poetry collection, “THEY CALL US LOUD” is available throughout Australia and Southeast Asia. As Co-Creative Producer of Slamalamadingdong, one-third of Three Round Circus and co-founder of If Walls Could Talk Open Mic, William has years of experience performing, producing and teaching in international poetry communities. His work has been called “a boy howling his way into the world, despite all its muzzles”, but in real life he’s just glad he’s afraid of moths, not microphones.

Jessica Alice

Jessica Alice is a writer, editor, broadcaster and speaker from Melbourne. She is Poetry Editor of Scum and was a Director of the National Young Writers’ Festival in 2014 & 15. Jessica’s work has been featured in The Guardian Australia, VICE, The Lifted Brow, Junkee, Spook Magazine, Cordite Poetry Review and Metro Magazine, among others.

Waffle Irongirl

Waffle Irongirl regularly sets out to write poetry in the venerable tradition of Blake and Whitman. But she keeps getting waylaid by personal opinions, her cultural context and a fondness for the music of Cold Chisel. The fact she can’t resist the occasional slam just makes things worse. On-stage, she’s the poetical analogue of a heavy metal karaoke. Off-stage she’s vague and freshly introverted.

Ed Carlyon

Ed Carlyon is a writer and spoken word poet based in Melbourne. He has recently performed at both Strawberry Fields Festival and White Night Melbourne, as well as having competed in the national finals of the 2015 Australian Poetry Slam.

Bill Moran

Bill Moran is a first-year MFA poetry candidate at Louisiana State University and a former EMT. He was a proud member of the 2011-2013 Austin Poetry Slam national teams, as well as the 2012 & 2013 Austin Poetry Slam Champion and 2013 Southern Fried Haiku Champion. He has co-directed the Texas Grand Slam Poetry Festival, performed and taught poetry internationally, and served as president of Mic Check, a non-profit poetry organization in Brazos County, Texas. His work has been published three times by Button Poetry in video form, and is forthcoming in Phoebe and FreezeRay Press in print. Also, he is convinced he has the Gulf Coast inside him. He appreciates your concern and well-wishes, but swears he is okay. Really.

Arielle Cottingham

Arielle Cottingham is a poet and performance artist out of coastal and South Texas, now based in Melbourne, Australia. Her poetry ranges from raw vulnerability to provocative politics, exploring how the personal influences the public, and vice versa. When she isn’t writing poetry, she is facilitating it as one of the creative producers for Melbourne’s Slamalamadingdong.